Rabbis Without Borders
Why Thanksgivukkah is Good for Hanukkah and Good for the Jews
Last week, in the midst of an independent study meeting with a fourth grader, I was exploring the topic of ...
Why Thanksgivukkah Is Important For Jews And Non-Jews Alike
By now it seems that the entire Jewish world is abuzz about Thanksgivukkah, the once in a lifetime convergence of ...
Thanksgivukkah: The True History
Thanksgivvukah, the rare convergence of American Thanksgiving and Hanukkah, has been a mechayeh—a revitalization.Maybe even a re-dedication, which is the literal meaning of the ...
What’s Your Miracle?
Hanukkah is just around the corner. The smell of the freshly cooked latkes. The dreidels spinning on a table next to ...
Rabbis Without Borders Hanukkah Gift Guide
Happy Hanukkah, Jewish learners and lovers of Jewish learners! If gift-giving is a part of your Hanukkah tradition, let our ...
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
A number of recent essays have been swimming their way across the blogosphere and seem to have serendipitously swirled together. ...
Typhoon Haiyan and the Importance of Giving
“Shall we make Man in our image?” A favorite rabbinic comment of mine reads Genesis 1:25 as a questions rather ...
The Times They Are Changing
It used to be that most Jews affiliated with a synagogue. My parents’ generation supported their synagogues and the organized ...
Lie If You Must, But Don’t Pretend There Are Not Consequences
“I am not a crook”“Read my lips – no knew taxes”“I did not have sexual relations with that woman”“Saddam Hussein ...
Terror in Afula, Seen from Afar
A numinous dream, last Wednesday:I am on Kibbutz Ein Dor, near the city of Afula in Northern Israel, visiting my ...
What to Get: The Bar or Bat Mitzvah Gift
What gift to get for a Bar or Bat Mitzvah? The challenge with gifts for a life cycle event is ...
Subway sleeper, Rabbi returns cash: when people do the right thing
You may have caught a couple of stories that have been spreading virally over blogs and Face book the last ...